Please explain this to me? Thank you.
2006-09-19 12:28:06 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thank you Simon for those pearls of wisdom.
2006-09-19 12:40:16 · update #1
But why 42?
2006-09-19 12:42:47 · update #2
I DONT KNOW
2006-09-19 13:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,the answer to Life,the Universe,and Everything,is 42. When asked why, Douglas Adams(the author of the series)said that he just wanted to pick something funny,so he sat at his typewriter and said,"42 will do".
2006-09-19 16:11:28 · answer #2 · answered by That one guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How in the heck is 42 the answer to the universe?? I've never heard of 42 representing the universe and all its questions. Where are you seeing 42?
2006-09-19 12:36:48 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly_from_Texas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Douglas Adams chose 42 as the number because he felt that it was a perfectly inoffensive number - a number, as he put it, that you could introduce to your parents.
Incidentally, he had previously worked with the Monty Python team, and some of the Pythons had apparently decided that 42 was the funniest number in existence. So perhaps that was a factor too.
2006-09-19 14:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
42
- In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the number from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything") could be derived
2006-09-19 12:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42 is the answer to life the universe and everything. As soon as we know exactly what the question was, we can try to understand why the answer is 42.
One popular theory is that the question was: 'What is six times nine?'
2006-09-19 13:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by Gone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read The HitchHikers Guide To The Universe...
2006-09-19 12:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is 42- however no one knows what the question is.
Please read The Hitchhikers guide to the universe.
2006-09-19 12:36:35 · answer #8 · answered by NW_iq_140 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the answer to life's ultimate question. Now that we have the answer we just need to know what the question is.
To really understand where this comes from you would need to read the series of books by Douglas Adams that starts with the Hitchikers Guide to the Universe.
2006-09-19 12:35:16 · answer #9 · answered by dsi_samw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read through the various answers, yep its douglas adams.
but why is precisely the reason he wrote the story;
adams uses 42 as an example of what you get when asking a question that is too encompassing and expecting to get a single word answer.
theres an old computer term GIGO (gargage in garbage out)
or in other words ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer.... hmmm I get it now
2006-09-19 12:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by canaries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Douglas Adams book "life, the Universe and Everything"
There was a sentient computer called Deep Thought who was built to find out the answer to "The question" (i.e the meaning of life). unfortunately no one bothered to tell it what the question was.
To which it replied after milennia of waiting "42".
2006-09-19 12:34:24 · answer #11 · answered by Rich N 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋